Roof of Florence
Date1959
Maker
Jun'ichiro Sekino
Japanese, 1914 - 1988
Label TextSekino's tiled rooftops of Florence could just as easily represent the temple rooftops of Kyoto, but for the addition of the rose window at the top. The overlapping roof tiles cover the picture plane from bottom to top, creating an almost wholly abstracted pattern of discrete blocks of color highlighted here and there by whitewashed walls. The artist foregoes the techniques of Western linear perspective here in favor of a more traditionally Japanese bird's eye view, with somewhat distorted angles and flattened, almost compressed, space.
Object number60.6
Credit LineNorthwest Printmakers Purchase Award, 1960
DimensionsImage: 32 x 21 7/8 in. (81.3 x 55.6 cm)
Sheet: 36 1/2 x 24 3/4 in. (92.7 x 62.9 cm)
MediumWoodblock print
Katsushika Hokusai
ca. 1830-32
Object number: 2010.15
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